Director: Sydney Pollack
Genre: Drama/
Romance/ Mystery
Runtime: 132
minutes
Year:
1999
Starring: Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S. Dutton, Bonnie Hunt,
Dennis Haysbert, Sydney Pollack, Richard Jenkins, Paul Guilfoyle, Peter Coyote,
Dylan Baker, Bill Cobbs, Kate Mara
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Description: Police
Seargeant Dutch Van den Broeck (Harrison Ford) and U.S. Representative Kay
Chandler (Kristin Scott Thomas) lose their spouses in a plane crash, and they
soon discover that their partners were having an affair with each other.
Review: The wife of tough Internal Affairs Sergeant Dutch was
killed in a plane crash, as was the husband of politician Kay. Kay and Dutch
find out that their spouses were sitting next to each other on the plane, but
were also having an affair. Dutch wants to find out why.
On paper, this film sounds
interesting. But in practice, it doesn’t work. Mainly because it does not
really know in which direction it wants to go. At first, it’s a drama. Two
people losing their other half in a tragic accident. Then it turns into a
mystery, when they are trying to discover why they were on that plane and why
Dutch’s wife didn’t use her real name. And eventually some romance is sprinkled
in as well. And it has some strange side-plot of this case that Dutch is
working on, that has nothing to do with the actual plot. It just feels very
messy. And it’s also very boring, especially given that this film is over two
hours long.
Great cast, making the best of it.
But really a dull film with little to interest me.
Rating: 2/
5
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